Eric Schmidt Confirms Identity Verification Impacts Google Rankings

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Sneak peeks into the soon to be released book, “The New Digital Age”, by Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, confirm what many industry writers have been passionately clattering away about for months now. Google+ is an identity verification network. As the network continues to grow, content associated with a verified identity will rise to the top of Google search rankings.

“Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.”

One way or another Google will grow it’s network to eclipse LinkedIn, Twitter, and maybe someday Facebook. But engagement via the network isn’t the name of the game so much as connecting your content to your online persona. Are you ready to better define your personal online footprint?

I have been saying everything is going to some type of verification such as authorship. I think it is great because just as we are taught in school, college and business; plagiarism is not tolerated. That is essentially what spam is when it comes to copying someone or companies articles for the benefit of your own. I am all for this authorship and hope it creates problems for those spammers making my job more difficult. They should also try to find a way to revoke those pesky auto-bots from submitting forms. I understand that a captcha is supposed to prevent that, but lets face it, it is still an on-going problem.